She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.

She is not herself from the aristocracy or landed gentry, but is quite at home among them ; Miss Marple would probably have been happy to describe herself as a gentlewoman.

She landed a Cosmopolitan cover, a gift from Scavullo.

She landed the role of Si-Tchun, a lady-in-waiting, in the 1946 Broadway musical about the Orient, Lute Song, starring Mary Martin and a pre-stardom Yul Brynner.

She appeared in several student films, and later landed a role in an Off-Broadway play No Time Flat.

She later learns that Vader once landed on the Noghri home planet Honoghr and tricked the Noghri into serving the Empire by promising to help their planet recover from the ecological disaster that it suffered during the Clone Wars.

She then landed a contract with a major label, Virgin Records, recording Play Me Backwards ( 1992 ) for Virgin shortly before the company was purchased by EMI.

She then landed her first major film role as Stephanie Zinone in Grease 2 ( 1982 ), the sequel to the smash-hit musical Grease ( 1978 ).

She ruled the part of Wendland in which Olaf had landed, and Olaf and his men were given an offer to stay for the winter.

She won Female Vocalist of the Year at the 1987 Tejano Music Awards and landed a recording contract with EMI a few years later.

She landed in Fife on 10 June and was formally received by James.

She landed on the island of Delos, which was sacred to Apollo.

She began to attract attention and finally landed larger film roles that began to win her screen credits.

She then calls Cynthia from her office overlooking Manhattan to say she's landed her dream job.

She loved riding, and was falconing with Maximilian when her horse tripped, threw her, and then landed on top of her, breaking her back.

She landed her first starring role in 2001, playing Hannah Rayburn in the television sitcom State of Grace, which aired in the United States on the cable television channel Fox Family ( subsequently renamed ABC Family ) until 2002.

She held the glove up for protection, and the ball landed squarely in it.

She landed her first major supporting part in a movie as an intelligent teenager who aids her boyfriend ( Christopher Collet ) in building a nuclear bomb in Marshall Brickman's The Manhattan Project ( 1986 ).

She landed her first role in 1988 as the villain Paulina Montenegro in Pasión y Poder ( Passion and Power ).

She landed a role in Dreamgirls, the film adaptation of the 1981 hit Broadway musical about a 1960s singing group loosely based on Motown all-female group The Supremes.

She was signed to a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1958 and landed her first English-speaking role in the film Song Without End ( 1960 ) for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

She landed her first professional onstage role in Tom Eyen's Off-Off-Broadway plays in 1965, Miss Nefertiti Regrets and Cinderella Revisited, a children's play by day and an adult show by night.

She soon landed some of the most prestigious magazine covers, establishing herself as a supermodel.

She began taking acting classes and going to auditions almost daily, and soon landed a role as " Erica McCray " in the NBC TV series A Brand New Life ( 1989 – 90 ).

She was elected as Member of Parliament for Exeter in 1966, emulating her husband in nearby Falmouth and Camborne.

She worked for the Labour Party and UNISON before being selected to fight the three-way marginal seat of Falmouth and Camborne, after the local Labour Party had imposed the first all-women shortlist in the country.

She is the Vice Chair of the Truro and Falmouth Constituency Labour Party and a member of the Labour Party's South West Regional Board.

She was the daughter of Robert Were Fox FRS of the influential Fox family of Falmouth, and was the younger sister of both Barclay Fox, also a diarist, and Anna Maria Fox.

She left Falmouth in England on 20 January 1790 and, after calling at Madeira and Saint Jago, she arrived at Sydney Cove in Port Jackson on 20 June, having been driven off from the harbour heads on 2 June.

She was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Falmouth and Camborne from 2005 until she lost her seat by 66 votes to George Eustice, the Conservative candidate in the 2010 general election in the redefined Camborne and Redruth constituency.

She was elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 General Election for Falmouth and Camborne when she ousted the sitting Labour MP Candy Atherton.

She is buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery, in Falmouth, Maine.

She died at home in Falmouth, Cornwall in 1903.

She took sketching trips to Amberley and Storrington in Sussex and to Cornwall and the southern coast with family and friends.

She visited and stayed with artist Margaret Tarrant in Gomshall, Surrey and with family in Ugglebarnby, Cornwall.

She was made a dame in 1965, ten years before her death during a fire in her St Ives studio in Cornwall, aged seventy-two.

She informs her husband who departs with her to Cornwall without asking leave.

She is married off to Lot, the Duke of Cornwall.

She currently lives and works in London, Cornwall, and France.

She was evacuated during World War II with her mother and sister to a cottage in Cornwall and spent her childhood in Lincolnshire.

She never married, and she died penniless in Bude, Cornwall on 18 September 1951.

Aunt Branwell also gave them books and subscribed to Fraser's Magazine, less interesting than Blackwood's, but, nevertheless, providing plenty of material for discussion. Portrait of James Sheridan Knowles, in Fraser's Magazine 1838 She was a generous person who dedicated her life to her nieces and nephew, neither marrying nor returning to visit her relations in Cornwall, and she provided the funds for the project in Brussels.

She traveled also to a rural art colony in St Ives, Cornwall, returning to British Columbia in 1905.

She is said to be the daughter of Arthur's mother, the Lady Igraine, and her first husband, Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall, so that Arthur ( son of Igraine and Uther Pendragon ) is her half-brother.

She was renamed HMS Cornwall in 1868 when she became a school ship, and was sunk in 1940.

She now lives in Cornwall and is still active in the Labour Party and in public life.

She doubled her majority in the 2001 election, having successfully campaigned for Objective One status for Cornwall, for the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, and for a university in Cornwall.

She was deputy head of St Germans primary school near Saltash, Cornwall from 1977 – 9.

She joined Age Concern Scotland ( now Age UK ), in 1972, leaving in 1979 as a deputy director to join the Gas Consumer Council as a regional manager for the South West of England, in which capacity she founded the Devon and Cornwall energy efficiency centre, before she left in 1996.

She was elected as the secretary to the Plymouth Drake Constituency Labour Party in 1987-8, and was elected chairwoman of the Cornwall Labour Party for four years from 1990.

She unsuccessfully contested Cornwall South East at the 1992 General Election where she finished in third place some 25, 029 votes behind the sitting Conservative MP Robert Hicks.

She published several other " gothic " novels before she published the first of her family sagas Penmarric ( 1971 ), which details the fortunes and disputes of the Penmar family in Cornwall during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

She performed at Live 8 ; she sang at the Eden Project in Cornwall, after which she has been invited to concerts and events worldwide to promote Portuguese culture, from Australia to Finland, the United States and Argentina.

She was born and grew up in the village of Mount Hawke, Cornwall and before Fame Academy had a long term girlfriend from, Newquay She went to college at The Hub in St Austell and studied theatre studies, dance, acrobatics and clowning.

She married Salomon of Cornwall of and became the mother of Saint Cybi.